This did not happen to me, it actually happened to my
brother in December 2003 and he is not a believer in things
like this, so for him to have admitted that something
strange was going on is a big thing!
My brother lives in a no through road and his house is the
last one therefore, you can not go any further. Right
opposite his house there is an alley which runs along side
an overgrown / unused field. Years ago when he was a
schoolboy the field was well kept and he played for a local
football team that used to use this field for their games,
it also used to have a club house which no longer stands
although the foundations are still there.
As you can imagine the local kids tend to use this field so
the fence surrounding it can be got through very easily and
people walk their dogs over there as well but you must bear
in mind that in the middle of this field the grass is very
long and the ground is uneven so people tend to walk round
the edge (this is important)!!
So every morning he leaves home and normally walks down the
alley which runs along side the field and then he follows
the roads round to the train station to get his train to
work in London.
This particular morning he was running late so he decided
he would take a short cut across the field to save some
time. As he walks to the station on his own he always uses his
personal stereo and this morning was no different.
So picture the scene:-
It's a cold morning and there had been a heavy frost the
night before. He has his walkman on and enters the field.
As he starts to walk round the edge he notices a man
running through the middle of the field, away from him,
there was no-one else on the field. The reason he noticed
the mans was that he was running really quite fast. At
first my brother didn't pay anymore attention to him but he
thought something wasn't quite right. He then realised what
that was!
The man was not moving in the way a runner should (i.e.
picture the arms and legs) he was just gliding and anyhow,
you can not run through the middle of the field because the
ground is very uneven and the grass is too long.
He then turned off his walkman to listen and realised that
you could not hear the footsteps of the man (which you
should have done because the ground was hard and crunchie
because of the heavy frost)he also realised that you could
not hear anything else either, no birds no nothing!
As he was a bit shocked he stopped to watch the runner and
as the man got to the edge of the field (and the gap that
my brother needed to get through) he said he just
disappeared!!
Needless to say my brother left the field and walked the
long way round to the train station.
This was the first time anything strange had happened to
him on the field and nothing has happened since!
Ghostly runner, maybe?? Strange?? Definitely!!!
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